In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo. A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become 'a virago', until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father's mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man. 'Barnes makes gender and desire s The Lydia Steptoe Stories - Djuna Barnes od authora Djuna Barnes a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Djuna Barnes |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
48 |
Rok vydání |
2019 |
Žánr |
beletrie |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
Faber and Faber |